Any new books?
Consumer and social
book notification service
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5 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 26 comments about the project. Thread score -0.02.
Idea: 5 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 2 againstDocs: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Good idea and useful for finding new books
From 3 comments
Great idea. One nice feature for down the road might be to send only one email per week with the different categories a user selects combined. I know I have always enjoyed update…
duck on HNWow, thanks. This is a fantastic idea! Finding out about good, new books is actually one of the things that I find really hard to do. Usually I just have to wait to hear about it…
Josh0 on HNCool idea. Feature request: enter a list of authors I like and get notified when a new title is available by any of them.
yanowitz on HN
Interesting and clean design
From 2 comments
It's pretty neat. The inbox picture isn't the easiest to pick out that it's an indbox - make it look like the normal window view of mail with the split views for easier…
samratjp on HNLooks great! I'll just add that I think there's too much going on in the navigation... moving spotlight, changing colors, and some sort of other effect going on.
mshafrir on HN
Objections
Navigation animations are distracting
From 3 comments
I must tell you that I find the navigation animation to be very distracting. I think you'd be better off without it at all. Otherwise, appears to be an nice service.
nostromo on HNIt's pretty neat. The inbox picture isn't the easiest to pick out that it's an indbox - make it look like the normal window view of mail with the split views for easier…
samratjp on HNLooks great! I'll just add that I think there's too much going on in the navigation... moving spotlight, changing colors, and some sort of other effect going on.
mshafrir on HN
Category names are ambiguous
From 1 comment
I found your categories to be a bit ambiguous. What is the difference between Computers & Internet, Programming, and Professional & Technical, for example? I can guess but then I…
bruceboughton on HN
Kindle option is confusing for non-Kindle readers
From 1 comment
What's with the "Kindle" option? I have a Sony Reader. I read E-Books. I don't read "Kindle ebooks" whatever they are.
grepular on HN
Requests
Subscribe to authors
From 2 comments
Cool idea. Feature request: enter a list of authors I like and get notified when a new title is available by any of them.
yanowitz on HNThis looks great, Antonio. What I'd really like is a feature to subscribe to small ("indy") publishers. This is similar to the "by author" feature mentioned in these comments.…
darushimo on HN
Keyword alerts
From 1 comment
Is there any way to make notifications by keyword? I entered "OpenGL" into the search box to see if any new books were out, apparently there aren't, but can I subscribe to…
Dornkirk on HN
Single combined weekly email
From 1 comment
Great idea. One nice feature for down the road might be to send only one email per week with the different categories a user selects combined. I know I have always enjoyed update…
duck on HN
Recommendations based on ratings
From 2 comments
Wow, thanks. This is a fantastic idea! Finding out about good, new books is actually one of the things that I find really hard to do. Usually I just have to wait to hear about it…
Josh0 on HNIt's pretty neat. The inbox picture isn't the easiest to pick out that it's an indbox - make it look like the normal window view of mail with the split views for easier…
samratjp on HN
Book summaries
From 1 comment
This is a great idea. Would it be possible to include a one or two sentence summary (very short) about each book? Otherwise we're just judging books by their covers...
c0riander on HN
Questions
What is the business model?
From 1 comment
What's the business model? Affiliate sales?
michael_dorfman on HN
How is book data obtained?
From 1 comment
Cool stuff. How are you getting the data on new books? Do you have a cron job that uses Amazon's API to search for new books? I'm not really familiar with their API so I'm not…
Vindexus on HN
Why the Kindle option?
From 1 comment
Looks like a good service. I've signed up. I'm curious, what's the purpose of the Kindle ebook question?
ascuttlefish on HN
Alternatives named
Amazon's former notification service
From 1 comment
Amazon used to have a similar notification service, but they killed it. Anybody know why?
kabuks on HN